You assume the role of a psychopathic mass murderer who hates the world, and the human race. You progress through the game by murdering civilians in various different ways.You assume the role of a psychopathic mass murderer who hates the world, and the human race. You progress through the game by murdering civilians in various different ways.You assume the role of a psychopathic mass murderer who hates the world, and the human race. You progress through the game by murdering civilians in various different ways.
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- TriviaThe game was on Steam's Greenlight system for a few hours, but was taken down by Valve. Valve's CEO Gabe Newell personally sent the developers an email letting them know the game was back on Steam's Greenlight system and apologizing for it's removal.
- Quotes
The Antagonist: Death, the lowest common denominator of all !
- Crazy creditsNO THANKS TO ANYONE, FUCK YOU ALL!!!
[except Lord Gaben]
[and our fans]
[and anyone who helped and supported us in this enormous effort]
- ConnectionsFeatured in Zero Punctuation: Top 5 Games of 2015 (2016)
- SoundtracksParticular Hatred
Performed by Iperyt
Featured review
I hate this game.
Reviewed on: PC
Content rating: AO (intense violence, blood and gore, strong language)
Grade: F
Throughout the entire history of media, journalists, politicians, and bloggers have been having this long-winded debate over whether or not violent movies and video games are to blame for everything that's wrong with the world. 85% of the time, said journalists make these movies/games sound a LOT more violent than they actually are (largely because they have an opinion on everything, even if they haven't seen it). Hatred, however, is one of those games that practically begs for this kind of negative publicity to drive its sales. You know it's going to succeed based on the fact it's the only video game in existence to be rated AO 100% because of its graphic violence. However, the problem with Hatred isn't the fact it's violent enough to receive the harshest age rating by the ESRB. The problem is this game is nothing but violence; the game is comprised of boring dialogue, a hopeless message, and a weak and uninspired story, filled to the brim with a steady stream of empty cruelty and heinously gross violence and gore. The most I can say about this game is it's not the ugliest PC game to ever come out, graphics-wise or even violence-wise.
The story of Hatred follows a guy who I'm just gonna refer to as Clint Westwood because they never say his name. He starts the game by telling you under no uncertain terms that he hates life and humanity, and he fully intends on shooting as many people as possible before he kills himself. This shooting starts the second he finishes telling you this, and it ends the second the credits start to roll. I am being completely honest when I say that's it. That's the whole story. There is no depth, no development, no variation, no breaks, no point, nothing! The ENTIRE game is just going on a mass-shooting, and it goes on for 6 hours straight. Reading this, it sounds like the most horrible, disgusting, tasteless premise for a video game you have ever heard of. You would be correct from a conceptual standpoint, but from an execution standpoint, this is one of the most boring, ridiculous, and utterly stupid video games I have played in a very long time. It should take a whole lot of effort to make me view a mass-shooting as boring and mechanical, let alone make me laugh, but Hatred makes it look almost effortless.
Part of this is because the story is so wafer-thin that everything can be taken at face value; Clint is the most hateful, unlikable, vulgar, evil individual I have ever played as in a game, and there's absolutely no depth to his character beyond the fact he's just evil and homicidal. Like he was just born that way, and he has never had any hobbies or a life outside of hating everything and shooting everything. Perhaps he would be the most boring villain ever if not for the fact the game's voice acting is atrocious and the dialogue is somehow even worse. Characters either can't act at all, or they overact to the point where it sounds like the actors are learning how to speak for the first time. The delivery of the final exchange was so awkward and fails so miserably at being the slightest bit convincing, I genuinely wondered if this game was actually meant to be a satire, or if the actors just forgot what acting was. Clint's constant f-words and whining combined with his demonic voice and cringe-inducing evil laugh made me laugh at just how try-hard this loser was being. The game has absolutely zero self-awareness and takes itself completely seriously, and when you combine that with atrocious acting, a one-man army that paints the entire world red with his gun, and a final stage that is so over-the-top absurd that I genuinely can't tell if the developers realized how stupid everything about this game is, I ended up in a laughing fit.
As a game, Hatred has been compared a lot to another game that was released to an obscene amount of controversy: Postal. I assumed that meant either the controversy was similar or the game itself was similar. Turns out "similar" is an understatement: as a game, Hatred is an exact copy of Postal. It has the exact same mechanics, the exact same objectives, the exact same gameplay elements, and the exact same kind of protagonist. The biggest differences include the complete lack of comedy, which ironically makes Hatred even more funny, the colorless world besides the blood and gore, and the fact that since Postal already shocked the world with this same kind of content over a decade before this game released, Hatred doesn't really explore any kind of controversial subject matter. I'm not the kind of person who would automatically give something a bad score just because I was uncomfortable by its imagery or subject matter; it has to be the kind of thing that fails to appeal even to the niche that enjoys these kinds of things for me to consider it a failure. That is what Hatred is.
Hatred is a game that wants the news media to get all bent out of shape so they can make 5-10 articles every single day about how this game is going to destroy the planet, so it can garner people who are morbidly curious to buy it. The plan worked; it ended up being the top-selling Steam game the same day it came out, but the game is so overburdened with shock value, it ends up becoming boring and really repetitive. I've invested over 50 hours into this game because I'm an insane girl, also that's one of the objectives of the game, and I'm really not going to miss my time with this game. I hate it.
Content rating: AO (intense violence, blood and gore, strong language)
Grade: F
Throughout the entire history of media, journalists, politicians, and bloggers have been having this long-winded debate over whether or not violent movies and video games are to blame for everything that's wrong with the world. 85% of the time, said journalists make these movies/games sound a LOT more violent than they actually are (largely because they have an opinion on everything, even if they haven't seen it). Hatred, however, is one of those games that practically begs for this kind of negative publicity to drive its sales. You know it's going to succeed based on the fact it's the only video game in existence to be rated AO 100% because of its graphic violence. However, the problem with Hatred isn't the fact it's violent enough to receive the harshest age rating by the ESRB. The problem is this game is nothing but violence; the game is comprised of boring dialogue, a hopeless message, and a weak and uninspired story, filled to the brim with a steady stream of empty cruelty and heinously gross violence and gore. The most I can say about this game is it's not the ugliest PC game to ever come out, graphics-wise or even violence-wise.
The story of Hatred follows a guy who I'm just gonna refer to as Clint Westwood because they never say his name. He starts the game by telling you under no uncertain terms that he hates life and humanity, and he fully intends on shooting as many people as possible before he kills himself. This shooting starts the second he finishes telling you this, and it ends the second the credits start to roll. I am being completely honest when I say that's it. That's the whole story. There is no depth, no development, no variation, no breaks, no point, nothing! The ENTIRE game is just going on a mass-shooting, and it goes on for 6 hours straight. Reading this, it sounds like the most horrible, disgusting, tasteless premise for a video game you have ever heard of. You would be correct from a conceptual standpoint, but from an execution standpoint, this is one of the most boring, ridiculous, and utterly stupid video games I have played in a very long time. It should take a whole lot of effort to make me view a mass-shooting as boring and mechanical, let alone make me laugh, but Hatred makes it look almost effortless.
Part of this is because the story is so wafer-thin that everything can be taken at face value; Clint is the most hateful, unlikable, vulgar, evil individual I have ever played as in a game, and there's absolutely no depth to his character beyond the fact he's just evil and homicidal. Like he was just born that way, and he has never had any hobbies or a life outside of hating everything and shooting everything. Perhaps he would be the most boring villain ever if not for the fact the game's voice acting is atrocious and the dialogue is somehow even worse. Characters either can't act at all, or they overact to the point where it sounds like the actors are learning how to speak for the first time. The delivery of the final exchange was so awkward and fails so miserably at being the slightest bit convincing, I genuinely wondered if this game was actually meant to be a satire, or if the actors just forgot what acting was. Clint's constant f-words and whining combined with his demonic voice and cringe-inducing evil laugh made me laugh at just how try-hard this loser was being. The game has absolutely zero self-awareness and takes itself completely seriously, and when you combine that with atrocious acting, a one-man army that paints the entire world red with his gun, and a final stage that is so over-the-top absurd that I genuinely can't tell if the developers realized how stupid everything about this game is, I ended up in a laughing fit.
As a game, Hatred has been compared a lot to another game that was released to an obscene amount of controversy: Postal. I assumed that meant either the controversy was similar or the game itself was similar. Turns out "similar" is an understatement: as a game, Hatred is an exact copy of Postal. It has the exact same mechanics, the exact same objectives, the exact same gameplay elements, and the exact same kind of protagonist. The biggest differences include the complete lack of comedy, which ironically makes Hatred even more funny, the colorless world besides the blood and gore, and the fact that since Postal already shocked the world with this same kind of content over a decade before this game released, Hatred doesn't really explore any kind of controversial subject matter. I'm not the kind of person who would automatically give something a bad score just because I was uncomfortable by its imagery or subject matter; it has to be the kind of thing that fails to appeal even to the niche that enjoys these kinds of things for me to consider it a failure. That is what Hatred is.
Hatred is a game that wants the news media to get all bent out of shape so they can make 5-10 articles every single day about how this game is going to destroy the planet, so it can garner people who are morbidly curious to buy it. The plan worked; it ended up being the top-selling Steam game the same day it came out, but the game is so overburdened with shock value, it ends up becoming boring and really repetitive. I've invested over 50 hours into this game because I'm an insane girl, also that's one of the objectives of the game, and I'm really not going to miss my time with this game. I hate it.
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- May 12, 2024
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